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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tinder is a proprietary privacy nightmare that requires one's Facebook data for functionality. It even has its very own analytics library just to enhance the Orwellian tracking.

You don't want any of that.

If you're searching for a partner or a lover, Alovoa is the better corner of the internet to find one. It's private, secure, and vitally open-source.

You can find the service's source code here.

Alovoa has an Android and iOS app. Here is the native Android app. Its source code can be found here.

The native Android app was released fairly recently in late October last year, and appeared on F-Droid some days ago. If you encounter any bugs, report them in the Issues section of its GitHub repository.

I'm not the developer.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Internet dating is like the light from poltergeist. Don't look at the light, don't go into the light.

Even if it's open source, it's still bad for your soul.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read an article a while back about how one DM on Twitter led to a happy marriage. The correspondents had no prior relationship. Just a curious DM. I'm not endorsing the use of Twitter here, especially for dating.

Dating isn't always about marriage, though, and dating platforms are also about... casual sex. Yup. One-night stands. A lot of magic can happen via online dating once the connection is there. I don't see it as inherently bad or evil.

A lot of very personal information is exchanged on these type of sites, so it's very, very important it's a private AND secure platform.